Red-flanked lorikeet
{{Short description|Species of bird}}
{{Speciesbox
| name = Red-flanked lorikeet
| image = Charmosyna placentis -Jurong Bird Park -pair-6a.jpg
| image_caption = A pair, female on left and male on right at Jurong Bird Park
| status = LC
| status_system = IUCN3.1
| genus = Hypocharmosyna
| species = placentis
| authority = (Temminck, 1835)
| synonyms =
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The red-flanked lorikeet (Hypocharmosyna placentis) is a species of parrot in the family Psittaculidae.
It is found in Mollucas, New Guinea and the Bismarck Archipelago.
Its natural habitats are subtropical or tropical moist lowland forests and subtropical or tropical mangrove forests. Only the adult males have the red plumage on the head and sides.
Taxonomy
This species was formerly placed in the genus Charmosyna. It was moved to the resurrected genus Hypocharmosyna based on a molecular phylogenetic study published in 2020.{{Cite journal | last1=Smith | first1=B.T. | last2=Mauck | first2=W.M.I. | last3=Benz | first3=B.W. | last4=Andersen | first4=M.J. | date=2020 | title=Uneven missing data skew phylogenomic relationships within the lories and lorikeets | journal=Genome Biology and Evolution | volume=12 | issue=7 | pages=1131–1147 | doi=10.1093/gbe/evaa113 | doi-access=free | pmid=32470111 | pmc=7486955 }}{{Cite journal | last1=Joseph | first1=L. | last2=Merwin | first2=J. | last3=Smith | first3=B.T. | date=2020 | title=Improved systematics of lorikeets reflects their evolutionary history and frames conservation priorities | journal=Emu - Austral Ornithology | volume=120 | issue=3 | pages=201–215 | doi=10.1080/01584197.2020.1779596| bibcode=2020EmuAO.120..201J }}{{cite web| editor1-last=Gill | editor1-first=Frank | editor1-link=Frank Gill (ornithologist) | editor2-last=Donsker | editor2-first=David | editor3-last=Rasmussen | editor3-first=Pamela | editor3-link=Pamela Rasmussen | date=July 2021 | title=Parrots, cockatoos | work=IOC World Bird List Version 11.2 | url=https://www.worldbirdnames.org/bow/parrots/| publisher=International Ornithologists' Union | accessdate=21 July 2021 }}
Five subspecies are recognised:
- H. p. intensior (Kinnear, 1928) – North Maluku, Gebe Island
- H. p. ornata (Mayr, 1940) – north-western New Guinea, west Papuan Islands
- H. p. pallidior (Rothschild & Hartert, E, 1905) – Woodlark Island, Bismarck Archipelago, Bougainville Island, western Solomon Islands
- H. p. placentis (Temminck, 1835) – South Maluku, Aru Islands, southern New Guinea
- H. p. subplacens (Sclater, PL, 1876) – eastern New Guinea
References
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Category:Birds of the Maluku Islands
Category:Birds of the Bismarck Archipelago
Category:Taxonomy articles created by Polbot
Category:Taxobox binomials not recognized by IUCN
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